Live from the Hollywood Bowl sketch from Monty Python - Communist quiz featuring Marx, Lenin, Che, Mao. A great parody...
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@leljdam31894 роки тому
*How to do comedy:* Step 1: Have a low budget
@the0sanitydokutah9674 роки тому
Step 2: Be a parody
@alexh29474 роки тому
@@historyarmyproductions Sorry is Chinese a race
@historyarmyproductions4 роки тому
@@alexh2947 They are a People, And he certainly isnt portraying them in the best light.
@alexh29474 роки тому
@@historyarmyproductions I know I just get annoyed when people say stuff like that's racist when I've said something about a country
@historyarmyproductions4 роки тому
@@alexh2947 I agree.
@robertn29512 роки тому
The men who wanted to save the working class have no idea what the working class really cares about: football.
@Skyblade122 роки тому
They never wanted to save the working class.
@oddlycreatetiff89202 роки тому
@@Skyblade12 I was going to make the exact same comment 👊 Glad to have one who can see 😎
@luizcandidoborges22822 роки тому
The football was not yet created during Marx lifetime, genious!
@JesseArt2 роки тому
@@Skyblade12 Maybe actually read Marx?
@robertn29512 роки тому
@@luizcandidoborges2282 Football Marx's The Capital was published in 1867. The first football association club were formed in 1863. I am not a genius, I am simply well-read.
@nastynate4916Рік тому
Some comics make a normal situation into a political joke, Monty python takes something with the most potential for one and does this and I love it
@nightyorbРік тому
they publicaly shared comunist ideas in the individual marx section, this was some high quality radicalisation techniques and i'm on board with it.
@v3student11 місяців тому
🌅🏞️😎Also, those scenes from the late 1960's...👀🏘️📚☎️🎾📚 &, thanks, Cheers...{this may be removed later, etc.} 😎
@bogdang875911 місяців тому
this is political af tho
@nastynate491611 місяців тому
@@bogdang8759 what I mean is that it’s like actually funny. It’s comedy before commentary despite being both
@JelMain11 місяців тому
@@nightyorb On the other hand, a family member was the Ukrainian goalie in the Wolves team.
@matthewsmith2673Рік тому
It kind of blows my mind now that this sketch (1970) was released closer to the time Lenin lived (up to 1924) than the present day
@DialecticRedРік тому
wait hold on . . . damn that really is mind blowing
@styraco4739Рік тому
Mao was also alive at the time. Guevara had died a few years earlier.
@KasumiRINAРік тому
Well obviously, this is ancient TV.
@SCWhiteJazzРік тому
@@KasumiRINA What do you mean exactyl by "TV"? ;-)
@SebHaarfagreРік тому
@@KasumiRINA "Ancient"?
@Kittymouth3 роки тому
"No one leaves the show empty-handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands." Is a GEM just delivered as a throwaway line!
@tintinismybelgian3 роки тому
They are still empty, but now also detached.
@ReinoutVrijhoef3 роки тому
@@tintinismybelgian well, he’s not going to leave with them, is he?
@tintinismybelgian3 роки тому
@@ReinoutVrijhoef They're still his hands, aren't they? Or, in a communist state, are they considered shared property (e.g., means of production and all that)?
@khangasOozaki3 роки тому
@@tintinismybelgian so you can't claim to be communist and have hands. "hands don't exist in my reality" ~Kaldor Draigo
@tintinismybelgian3 роки тому
@@khangasOozaki Perhaps. You might "have" hands in the sense that they are attached (or unattached) to the body you inhabit, but it is the collective that "owns" the hands, proprietarily speaking, as they exist to serve the interests of the communist revolution.
@demondwilson7066 років тому
The best part is that I can't even find a political joke, the fact the entire joke is they don't know about English sports makes it so much better
@xenoblad6 років тому
ehh... that's kind of a stretch, but it did remind me that Cuba beat America and Dominica Republic in the baseball world classic nearly every time. The world classic is like the Fifa for baseball, but is dramatically less popular. It's also a joke how sad the national baseball team of China is. They literally lose to everyone by 20+ runs.
@Mutterschwein6 років тому
matthieuriolo Please tell me you don't genuinely believe that socialist governments kill their own athletes' families or actually punished them in any way as harsh as that for not winning sports competitions.
@TooCooFoYou6 років тому
Xiclotrode Stalin killed anyone that didn't cough at his direction.
@bodyguardik6 років тому
Kaotikrakkerz 22 he cant. he is just brainwashed sheepie
@TooCooFoYou6 років тому
Kaotikrakkerz 22 I'm not sure if he did, but I was just messing around given the fact that Stalin had quite the ego (cult of personality).
@kaleygoode1681Рік тому
I would have thought Karl knew about sports! After all, his wife, Onya, was an Olympic runner! They still use her name at the start of races
@jamescampbell4334Рік тому
You win the comment section. 👍
@cliffordwebb365611 місяців тому
That's fairly amusing.
@Nick1549992 місяці тому
I do not get it
@kaleygoode16812 місяці тому
@@Nick154999 Before beeps, races were started by a human with a pistol that said, "On your marks... get set... GO!" (and shot the pistol at the same time as shouting, "GO!"). "Marks" were objects or lines on the ground before blocks were used. Marx was German but had a huge influence on Russians, Starlin and Trotsky who interpreted his writing differently and formed opposing parties after the Russians Revolution. Onya is a Russian name. Onya Marks sounds like, "On your marks" The joke implies Marks had a familial link to Russia. Jokes need the audience to put together missing information themselves, and they laugh if they're successful; there's a lot to put together in this one so most people won't get it! 🥰
@ben85572 місяці тому
@@Nick154999 At the beginning of a race, they say "On your marks" which sounds kind of like "Onya marx"
@joeblair3427Рік тому
The true kings of comedy. Sadly Karl lost both hands but Eric Idle was in such a chipper mood he gave him the non materialistic lounge suite for his troubles but wouldn’t give him a hand to get it out the door
@mikeyh0Рік тому
LOL I would give a thumbs up but that would be too ironic.
@ultureРік тому
shame that joke makes no sense. Materialism is the basis of Marx's whole philosophy (it just meant something different back then)
@JelMain11 місяців тому
May your long third leg never fumble a ball.
@grizzlygrizzle10 місяців тому
The lounge suite was the perfect choice for Marx, a parasitic layabout who never had a real job. He was a 19th century analogue of today's mom's-basement-keyboard-warrior-brony. In My Little Pony Land, there's no student debts, and It's OK to have needs, because the other guy has abilities.
@gg8298 місяців тому
@@ulture it still means the same thing, it is just one of those words that people use completely wrong.
@nickv40733 роки тому
John Cleese did not have one line in this skit and he was still hilarious.
@ieuan._.ch4n9453 роки тому
Always is
@waynej26083 роки тому
Of course.
@deanronson63312 роки тому
He did use his funny walk later to exit the stage.
@Jotari2 роки тому
The look of concentration on his face as he considers the question is fantabulous.
@SithCelia2 роки тому
Agreed a hundredfold! Their facial expressions were the most hilarious, I think, particularly Michael Palin as Che. Che!
@affectionatepunch4 роки тому
Can't believe Trotsky wasn't invited he was a staunch Evertonian
@sovietunion76434 роки тому
Trotsky was invited, but so was Stalin. so Stalin and Trotsky were fighting each other in the parking lot with baseball bats when they saw each other, and since neither showed up into the studio on time, the producers had to go on without Stalin and Trotsky
@NEWz2064 роки тому
@@sovietunion7643 Cricket bats*
@summer201057074 роки тому
Why didn't they invite Tito? He would have been the smartest one.
@DieterRahm18454 роки тому
@@NEWz206 Ice axes*
@FreaKCSGOHacker4 роки тому
trotsky had an unfortunate accident with an ice-pick when it accidentally fell on his skull
@stevef9530Рік тому
I was a kid at school when Monty Python started, and used to stay up to watch the show which was on about 11pm. It made every other comedy programme look tired and dull, and opened up wonderful new areas. It was so exciting, and the only drawback is that nothing I can think of since has lived up to the promise it made. Now the world is still a mess, and maybe I’m wrong but I think we have nothing like this now. Oh well....
@mikelmart11 місяців тому
Foil Arm's and Hog come close to a modern day MP.
@JelMain11 місяців тому
Comedy relies on contrast, the more extreme the better, but political correctness slaps criticism of divergence down. At root, conformity and political extremism are at odds, so there is still plenty of scope.
@stevef953011 місяців тому
@@JelMain political correctness slaps down divergence, not criticism of divergence. I don’t think MP was actually political on the whole, they laughed at everything in a completely anarchic way. People will politicize their comedy because they are like that. There’s trouble now because the pc left can’t tolerate dissent. I don’t remember much complaining about Python in the 60s.
@JelMain11 місяців тому
@@stevef9530 Any more than Boris' bunch can.
@tubehound6910 місяців тому
I was probably around 10 years old when I was introduced to Monty Python. My uncle, who is about 5 years older than me introduced me to it. One of the first skits I saw was the Oscar Wilde “your majesty is like.” Although a lot of the more complex humor in that flew over my head it was still hilarious.
@facundovaldez6990Рік тому
This is hilarious! Che was Argentinian, though. The CIA was absolutely positive that he was Bolivian. It is said that when they finally got him, very near to his death, after they read everything they had on him and claimed him to be Bolivian, he laughed.
@bourbonbrigade1968Рік тому
You can only kill a man, an idea lives on! Murderous CIA invaders will be remembered in 100 years as just that. Che will still be a legend, loved by the people!
@thelordofcringeРік тому
@@bourbonbrigade1968 che is already remembered as a serial killer pretending to be a socialist lmao He put gay people in camps and tortured everyone he could get his hands on to death. Personally. He was a serial killer who could only get his rocks off to torturing someone to death.
@danbackslide2957Рік тому
@@bourbonbrigade1968 Che got what he deserved
@gregfielderРік тому
Well, the people that he didn't personally dispatch with his handgun, anyway.
@SZebSРік тому
I interpreted that as "leader of the bolivian guerrilla", which to me would make it incredibly funny since that's not what he's known for and also that's when he kicked the bucket
@aldhizak3 роки тому
"Marx" actually looks like Engels, "Lenin" looks a bit like Trotsky, "Che" somehow looks like Castro, "Mao" definitely looks like Tito.
@SignOfCross2 роки тому
And all of them looks like poop
@markschnabel13532 роки тому
Tito Jackson?
@FaithRox2 роки тому
I believe that was part of the joke.
@rayout232 роки тому
@@markschnabel1353 😂
@pastushi28832 роки тому
And "Che" is definitely not a Bolivian..
@carsonreddick34523 роки тому
"The hammers is the name of which english football team" Karl Marx: *has a full existensial crisis*
@dereklonewolf90113 роки тому
They were never a football team. It's a trick question ! 🇨🇦 71+ yr old hunter expat
@siypic3 роки тому
@@dereklonewolf9011 Every 25 years they are..
@dereklonewolf90112 роки тому
@@siypic lol ⚽️
@Pe6ek2 роки тому
Perhaps learn to spell.
@joaogarcia94882 роки тому
Precious
@niv8880Рік тому
Apparently, Coventry City has since won the English Football Cup once, in the 1986-1987 season. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 in the final, with striker Keith Houchen scoring a memorable diving header to level the score at 2-2. This was Coventry City's first major trophy in their history. (ChatGPT!)
@davidemelia6296Місяць тому
This sketch is from the 70s, ChatGpenis
@73caddydaddy935 місяців тому
The way Marx goes "aw shit" after losing was a masterstroke
but the joke here is that the game show host doesn't know what he is talking about. saying the louge suite is non-materalistic is just using the term incorrectly in the context. I see this sketch as just a means to simplify the discourse and muddy the water on what any of the policy or philosophy of these people were. even more telling that its framed in an popular tv quiz game show where they talk about sports statistics... I'd laugh if more people understood what this skit was really about and what the joke is other then the stuff i'm seeing in the comments of "haha look at these leaders, wasn't socialism bad? haha"
@sciencefictionisreal16084 роки тому
but what about Marxist materialist world view?
@sirperybLakeney4 роки тому
I actually thought the “This non-materialistic lounge suite'' line was the weakest part of the sketch -it was just being too obvious and lighting up a neon sign and pointing excitedly at the joke for those too thick to get it. Still, I suppose part of being a good performer is knowing your audience...
@4nc3st0r4 роки тому
I feel people that find that funny conflate communism with post modern theories of consumer criticism. Communists don't think that people buy too many things, and communists don't think people ought to share more and be less selfish. Communism is a critique of the mode of production that leads to amassment of wealth in the hands of few while excluding those wo toil to produce that wealth on the other. It is not a critique of consumption of goods.
@sciencefictionisreal16084 роки тому
@@4nc3st0r ^^^^
@eliwatson79364 роки тому
Karl lived in London for a significant portion of his life, he probably had the best shot at winning
@stardustnation24803 роки тому
A century before this sketch tho
@harryscott29553 роки тому
Lenin lived in London for a couple years
@patp37253 роки тому
And Che was a known sports enthusiast, although he played rugby he also followed a local football team
@JeffDeWitt3 роки тому
And he's buried in England... it's a real Communist plot.
@tomlewis51053 роки тому
@@JeffDeWitt And you have to pay to get in hahahaha
@Thelawncarenut2 роки тому
"Solid Gold Biggie" was my nickname in college. 🤘
@charliek115Рік тому
The soldiers of the United States will have their way with you one day
@Lamster66Рік тому
@@charliek115 Why, are "The soldiers of the United States" all Gay?
@TheSiemek2 роки тому
The best part of the sketch is the subtext in it. It doesn’t matter if you want to help the working class, because football is much more important to the media and in short term also to the masses than their own well-being.
@thatonegamer2921Рік тому
Bread and circuses
@Aireck174Рік тому
I can see that interpretation but I think now we have the opposite problem and everything is political. I just want to watch a basketball game but I have to hear a sermon about equity or whatever.
@TomDaly943Рік тому
In 1984 all the proles seemed to care about was the lottery!
@blakerobinson8370Рік тому
I think its more, you want to help them, yet 1. jobs come from the people you dont like as you just admitted. and 2. you have no idea what the proles enjoy - eg the football and so therefore have nothing in common with them.
@vandatavna768111 місяців тому
The reason this sketch makes me laugh is not so much the politics, but because it reminds me of being in a similar position, in the old pub quizzes. The pub quiz was always a popular form of entertainment in the UK ... now there are not so many of them around. But I would sit with my team (at a table with pint of lager) waiting hopefully for a question I could answer (history, geography, zoology etc) which seldom came ! ... it was always football, cricket, tv soaps, or formula one racing ( ... which I know nothing about)! So ... Karl, Vladimir, Che, Mao ... join the club!
@DrunkenCoward110 років тому
"Ah, shit..." - Karl Marx What a poet that man was.
@GathGealaich10 років тому
The most famous of the Marx Brothers, at least in Europe!
@1simo935219 років тому
GathGealaich he just wasn't as funny as Groucho.
@hansgruber7889 років тому
Simo nah mate, chico was the funniest
@drscope277 років тому
Nietzsche claims the ball did not exist, Marx claims its offside.
@milascave27 років тому
Nietzsche believed that a type of ball was only a means to get a few great balls, and then to achieve even greater balls, until you had the greatest balls of all. (but, for some reason, you then had to repeat the process over and over.)
@Radien7 років тому
This is how I feel every time I play Trivial Pursuit and I get the friggin' Sports category.
@jshepard1525 років тому
SAME
@xcvsdxvsx4 роки тому
Right? Why is sports in there. It doesn't matter. It isn't relevant to anything in the real world. And they treat it like its equal to the other subjects. WTF is that even?
@reasonablespeculation38934 роки тому
The importance of sports entertainment (and entertainment generally) must be continually impressed upon the masses. Even grown men are thrilled to wear clothing emblazoned with the name of their Sports Hero. They have been psychologically infantilized. Important to keep everyone distracted, amused, and most importantly, convinced that they ARE aware of current important events. Concentrate on the trivial, ignore reality. As the Western World is culturally and demographically decimated, the unwitting masses are well fed and immersed in frivolity.
@Mikebumpful4 роки тому
Reasonable Speculation That totally sounds like an English translation of a letter written by Marx!!
@george2009town4 роки тому
You uncoordinated snobs have no fucking idea about the importance of sport to humanity...and the Python sketch was yet another of their BIG misses.
@Revolver0cel0tРік тому
You know monty python are the best of all time when across generations they are still funny and the jokes are still relevant for different people to get, truly genius and pioneers of the comedy genre Especially in movies, everything they made has aged remarkably
@HelderGriff11 місяців тому
True, I'm 25 and I absolutely love the life of Brian
@maxi-me10 місяців тому
Which one was Monty?
@idhrenoh202310 місяців тому
Well, the comedy certainly aged well. Not so sure about having Terry Gilliam play a Chinese man and the occasional black face routine in Flying Circus.
@hellbooks30244 місяці тому
The facial expression adopted to portray Mao is just priceless.
@portcullis562211 днів тому
An uncanny likeness!😂
@winsomehax3 роки тому
Marx eyeing Lenin suspiciously at the start... glorious bit of acting/writing.
@immachanguropinin11103 роки тому
Marx would have liked Lenin tho
@jasem2223 роки тому
@Oliver Formby Marx was all about the means justifying the ends. As we all are comrade.
@dragoncrown20293 роки тому
@Oliver Formby Lenin was power hungry commie piece of shit , he was never good for Russia , after Lenin and his Bolshevik party did the coup , all hell broke out in Russia , a resistence against the Bolsheviks ( white army ) was assembled , the civil war between the Bolsheviks and White army caused the death of 9.5 million Russians , it would be best for Russia if Lenin's Bolshevik party never did their coup , so that the awful civil war could be avoided , people who support Lenin are not right in the head , he was an awful power hungry communist , he didn't care how many people his soldiers killed , he only cared about setting up his autoritharian communist state with himself as the dictator
@jeremynewcombe34223 роки тому
@@dragoncrown2029 Just one correction. Civil War was inevitable after the Provisional Government's multiple failings in 1917. The reason Bolsheviks came to power in the first place is because there was a complete power vacuum in Petrograd. The leader at the time Kerensky had no legitimate authority beyond the walls of the Winter Palace, as the historian Orlando Figes liked to say. Some one was going to try and take the charge. It wasn't a matter of if, but when the civil war would occur. Lenin obviously had no reservations about all the horrors Russia would endure, viewing the civil war as the realisation of class struggle.
@abdelaziz31973 роки тому
@@dragoncrown2029 The October Revolution was inevitable, Kerensky's government was unable to deliver to any of the promises they had made, they didn't retreat from ww1, they didn't improve the peasantry's conditions and if that wasn't enough they where about to allow the restoration of the tsar. The bolsheviks had much more popular support than the white guards and you can't deny by no means the huge improvement in life conditions after the civil war, huge increase in literacy rate, massive increase in life expectancy and incredibly quick industrilization. The fact that you think that some guy that was in exile can just snap his fingers and have himself an army capable of defeating the pro-tsarist counter-revolutionaries and make himself the dictator of the USSR is just not right. You should really research what you're talking about, or at the very least have the common sence to know that things don't work like that
@Boredman5673 роки тому
Funny how Marx looks more like Engels, and Che looks more like Castro.
@Kelveron3 роки тому
I thought this Marx looked like Rasputin!
@valentinogoksirkairesideba39813 роки тому
@@Kelveron Rasputin wasn't even communist
@ObamaGaming443 роки тому
Also kinda funny how Marx’s accent sounds more Russian than German
@liamtempleman82513 роки тому
And Guevara was Argentinean not Bolivian
@techdeckofficial3 роки тому
ThereIs ASnakeInMy that wasn’t what they were saying
@terryherrera9054Рік тому
When Monty Python started in the 60s my older brothers watched it and the show always had them laughing so hard . They loved it. Then us younger one's got to watch it with them it was hilarious we always looked forward to it when it came on. It still just as funny as it was back then. 🤣😂😅
@recordkeeper47612 роки тому
no one ever gives Friedrich Engels the notoriety he deserves.
@edwinsamuel50653 роки тому
The fact that they don't even attempt to speak a word makes it even better.
@TRLgoodvibesdotcom2 роки тому
Agreed 😆 but Mao knew Great Balls of Fire 😆
@rehoboth_farm2 роки тому
Funny but not realistic at all. In real life none of those idiots ever shut up. That's what makes it funny to me.
@PaNDaSNiP3R4 роки тому
SNL could take a note or two thousand from these guys.
@crysstoll11914 роки тому
PaNDaSNiP3R I’m fairly sure they did. Especially the greats from the first few years.
@Eisenwulf6664 роки тому
Snl is cringe nowadays anyway, used to be great,then was ok, then meh..now it's just sad
@heatshield4 роки тому
it's complete crap now. SNL just hired someone, then fired him before his first appearance because the sjw outrage community went digging and found something insensitive he said years ago.
@crysstoll11914 роки тому
heatshield Wth? That used to be prerequisite for getting on the show! Did Lorne Michaels sell the show or is he turning neo con?
@crysstoll11914 роки тому
Eisenwulf666 I stopped watching by the time Ackroid, Newmann, Morris had left (of course Belushi and Radner has upped and died and Chase was gone). Started out on a high.
@buffy3200Рік тому
this is good stuff, needs to be on TV again
@achenarmyst21562 роки тому
Gorgeous sound at presenting the Lounge Suite. 😁
@mlb55252 роки тому
We need Monty Python’s humor now more than ever.
@user-cs5ld9if2y2 роки тому
Russia want to create USSR 2.0 Tomorrow Georgia was their prey. Today - Ukraine. Tomorrow - you will be.
@jimmyohara26012 роки тому
yeah, communism is a total failure. only North Korea very stubbornly persists with the dudd system. 😐🤪
@frenchfrysz66952 роки тому
the world has lost the ability to laugh at itself. everything is offesnsive now. and its depressing.
@jackpeters49302 роки тому
@@frenchfrysz6695 not true yet, we can still laugh don’t think like that. There’s so much pain and evil in this world and yet the progressive powers of the west wanna remove any slight chance to laugh
@stz97402 роки тому
@@user-cs5ld9if2y no. Russia is nothing like the ussr. NATO has expanded into Ukraine and on Russias border. Russia is defending themselves from antagonizers.
@CybrosisEvolved3 роки тому
The fact that MT TUNG just comes in and answers a question is comedy at it's finest. You were under the illusion the entire thing was gonna be a staring match. Then BAM - GRAATE BALLS OF FIRE!
@AndreasDelleske3 роки тому
Yes.. a bit too early if you ask me.
@derekralston59672 роки тому
Him buzzing in for some reason just got me.
@olliemartinelli40342 роки тому
I mean funny yes but also very predictable.
@honourabledoctoredwinmoria31262 роки тому
It's pretty funny that his surname is actually Mao, and it gets listed as Tung, half his given name.
@MrHmg552 роки тому
Isn't there another version of this sketch in which the question is about another song and Mao answers, correctly, "Sing Little Birdie"?
@the6ig6adwolf2 роки тому
This is bloody brilliant 🤣
@tobolulo4 роки тому
The resemblance to Mao is stunning...
@Wrongald4 роки тому
LOL, and thumbs up.... but only because I'm a bit drunk...
@tomxxx96554 роки тому
Remarkable isn’t it 😂
@goatwarrior35704 роки тому
Mao Zedunning
@usernameluis3054 роки тому
Looks like herman goering
@douggriggs14994 роки тому
Except that he wasn't fat enough .... great comment anyway by you.
@supercool69567 років тому
Marx looks more like rasputin
@WeDwellinaFiefdom6 років тому
SuperCool 69 Rah rah Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..
@stefanomemolis95026 років тому
+Delta3 Actual I heard there's no hell
@stefanomemolis95026 років тому
+Delta3 Actual by the way, I think Marx would go to the Christian hell, still don't think he would deserve that
@stefanomemolis95026 років тому
+Delta3 Actual I don't think there can be a worse thing than infinite pain forever
@TheWizardYeof6 років тому
That’s what I was thinking
@milkynebula76209 місяців тому
This amount of class and wittiness is restoring the brain cells I've lost today.
@PadraigTomas2 роки тому
Karl Marx lived in England. Unfortunately he died about 12 years before West Ham United was founded in 1895. Bad luck Karl!
@kri2494 роки тому
Monty Python humour is absolutely timeless. Who would have thought their skits would be relevant and still funnier after so many decades.
@lapdawg604 роки тому
Their themes are rooted in truth. Truth is eternal. And funny AF
@timjohnson11994 роки тому
Any of the Democratic candidates.
@runrig974 роки тому
@@timjohnson1199 True, as John Cleese has noted, Drumpf has no sense of humor whatsoever.
@Dowlphin4 роки тому
Because things rarely ever change. Gotta wait for the complete downfall of Western-capitalist imperialism when there are 49 new countries in America and then check back for how humor has evolved. 😉
@timjohnson11994 роки тому
@@Dowlphin Nahh..... Then we would be like Afghanistan and the Chinese would come and take over. How would you like to be ruled by the Chinese?
@panowa83194 роки тому
RIP to Terry Jones who passed away today.
@shanehenderson87564 роки тому
Should show this at universities that might understand soccer history better!
@danyleon70944 роки тому
So sad news, thanks for the info though, bro !
@blob59074 роки тому
how can he rest when we have people fishing for likes on his death
@diahane0924 роки тому
FUCK! I came here to laugh now I'm crying
@oni7414 роки тому
@PAT Warner Sadly ..
@theoneandonlyjonasv10 місяців тому
"Grate-uh Bowls of Fye-yah?" Comedy gold! lol
@seanspindleshanks25293 роки тому
"We're gonna cut off his hands" I'm starting to see the violence inherent in the system.
@namemcpersonsname67723 роки тому
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! He's being repressed!
@waynej26083 роки тому
@@namemcpersonsname6772 Bloody peasant!
@waynej26083 роки тому
Oh, quit bitching and let's have tea. Ok, first we'll cut off his hands, and then have tea. Right.
@cowboypilot70592 роки тому
Strange woman laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government!
@waynej26082 роки тому
@@cowboypilot7059 Supreme executive power is derived from a mandate of the masses, not from some watery bint, who threw a sword at you!
@thesturm86864 роки тому
"No one leave this show empty handed, so we just gonna cut off his hands" Sounds spot on
@eagle36764 роки тому
@Focux no it doesn't. Can you even define communism?
@teknical1004 роки тому
Everyone sinks to the lowest common denominator. Except for the people who are more equal than the rest.
@kwaynr13014 роки тому
@John LaFever . Like most people that never read the communist manifesto and then just repeat what other uninformed people said about it, your idea of communism is way off. There is nothing connecting communism to the atrocities committed by 'communist' dictators. I can come up with examples of capitalist countries ruled by dictators that are just as bad. Inform yourself please.
@kwaynr13014 роки тому
@John LaFever yeah sure, get mad, why not? Why exactly do you accuse me of having a ' reading comprehension problem'? So you have read the communist manifesto, or did you read about it? And btw, as far as my memory about the book goes, Marx never promised a 'sweet smelling paradise', instead he warned about economical issues, which for a large part came true. And suggested an alternative for capitalism ( which ,as im sure you know ,is just the next step after feudalism, introduced mostly after the french revolution, together with enlightenment). Instead, it's the capitalist creed that says ' you can become whatever you want as long as you work for it', which is not true for most people. Unless you're rich, you're just a puppet, working to make someone else rich. Or read about it here:en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
@mrde0mrsai4 роки тому
That’s how some countries eliminate poverty: just eliminate the poor people.
@90Eight.63 місяці тому
the guy playing Tung is squinting so goddamned hard
@realityjunky2 роки тому
Never gets old because it's still relevant.
@jackdoyle74537 років тому
Karl Marx spent most of his life in london of course he'd know who the hammers were!
@blindthrall7 років тому
Was thinking that if anybody would get it, it'd be Marx.
@blindthrall7 років тому
paul metzler Judging a communist by the contents of his bank account is pointless.
@JD10101011107 років тому
I think you're confusing Marx and Trotsky. Marx died in London he's buried there. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico city with an Ice pick by agents of Stalin.
@happyflea7 років тому
Wow, it's been quite a while since I've read anything that discoherently angry. Impressive!
@Catcrumbs7 років тому
Adolf Hitler never went by the name 'Shickelgruber'. www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/opinion/l-hitler-never-really-was-schicklgruber-016390.html
@MrVinnie474 роки тому
Can’t believe Marx didn’t get the West Ham question correct!
@jediroya68104 роки тому
Absolutely, given that he lived in London for nearly 35 years!
@portcullis56224 роки тому
@@jediroya6810 Wasn't he a QPR fan?
@sonnypeart73134 роки тому
Perhaps because he died before the club was founded?
@oni7414 роки тому
@@portcullis5622 Nay! Everybody knows that Marx rooted for Chelsea 😂
@portcullis56224 роки тому
@@oni741 I hear that he also made sneaky visits to Loftus Road.
@duncanurquhart52782 місяці тому
1:13 they all kind of half-nod like that's the reason they didn't answer LMAO
@dionysius1b8702 роки тому
I love M.P. and I never seen this skit! Ty for posting! Lnao
@TheStraatjutter7 років тому
Che looks like Fidel
@victorblackley83727 років тому
That sounds like Cold War code.
@TheStraatjutter7 років тому
Most four word sentences do
@TheStraatjutter7 років тому
I find Marx looks more like Engels and only Lenin really looks like Lenin, only I think they gave him and Mao hats so they wouldn't have to use bald caps etc. The odd thing is that Mao would have been salvageable if they had given him Lenins costume , since the military uniform in Mao china was basically a blue-er version of the workers uniform. What ever they put him in here makes no sense. Makes you wonder if they changed the sketch last minute.
@lindsayandrew60267 років тому
Che was also an Argentine, not Bolivian.
@TheStraatjutter7 років тому
Andrew You can also describe him as having been a Cuban guerrilla commander. It's not wrong but it's not the most understandable use of the English language either. The nationality describes the organisation he had a role of leadership in ( Bolivian guerrilla), not Ché himself. Look at it this way , a US postal service worker with the Canadian nationality is both a 'US postal' worker ánd a Canadian postal worker employed by the US postal service.
@leopold75623 роки тому
Monty Python were the masters of the ridiculous sketch and this is no exception. But that throwaway line at the end made me laugh rather more loudly than I was expecting.
@VacantSpirit2 роки тому
well im sure there was tons of similar comedian groups such as finnish Kummeli. Monty Python is lucky to be english so they're known worldwide
@rogink2 роки тому
@@VacantSpirit That's the funniest thing I've seen for a long while!
@lr68845 місяців тому
All I can think of is the sketch from FC where contestants had to summarize the works of Proust in 10 seconds or less... Something to the effect of "since we don't have a winner, first prize goes to the girl with the biggest tits!"
@ltr174524 дні тому
@@VacantSpiritNords aren't funny.🥱😴
@mallow173Рік тому
Man Love all these guys and Idle rocks!!
@nl58288 місяців тому
“english football cup” - this sketch was definitely tailored to an american audience. The FA Cup may mean something very different to the yanks, LOL.
@thejkyle3 роки тому
When I was a kid I’d go visit my great grandparents and my great grandfather would always be watching Monty Python. I still watch this stuff because of those days. Good memories.
@gabrielesolletico65422 роки тому
That's nice! Thank you for sharing your childhood memories with us!
@Eza_yuta4 роки тому
Karl Marx look like Rasputin and Che Guevara look like Fidel Castro 😂
@Cjnw3 роки тому
Marx looks a little like Keanu Reeves
@Eza_yuta3 роки тому
@@Cjnw Wha- How dare you.
@glennwilliams65223 роки тому
@space cowboy#2 Vlad Putin is Rasputin but Karl Marx is but another foreigner in London.
@BritishTea-eater3 роки тому
He looks like Friedrich Engels, one of the famous Communists. Marks, Engels and Lenin
@ekklesiast3 роки тому
And Lenin looks like Trotsky
@andrewdick46472 роки тому
The Monty team are still the best in the west ...50 years later.. priceless gems
@christinescarff49202 роки тому
When I first went to University I can remember that LOADS of people had posters of Che Guevara on their walls ! This skit is so funny cos all the questions/ answers are to do with sport or music, none really to do with politics other than Karl Marx’s questions for the ‘ non materialistic’ lounge suite, but the answer is re Wolverhampton Wanderers ( don’t ask !! ) winning the English football cup !
@MGSVxBreakpoint2 роки тому
Not many people get this. The point of the sketch is to show how out of touch these philosophers and political ideologues were with working class culture/ people - EXACTLY the people that they wrote at length about.My Dad is working class and he loooves football. He wouldn‘t know where to start with The Communist Manifesto.
@christinescarff49202 роки тому
@@MGSVxBreakpoint My dad was working class from Liverpool , though he became a graduate civil engineer and played rugby and never went to a football match on his life to my knowledge , though he’d deliberately wind me up by asking me how The Wolves ( W’ton Wanderers ) we’re doing . He however was VERY interested in politics and semantics and drove his MP bonkers with his letters to him, to Parliament, to Prince Philip and to the local paper !
@MGSVxBreakpoint2 роки тому
@@christinescarff4920 yes, well, the working class can exhibit middle class behaviour. Doesnt change the fact that football is associated with working people - hence the sketch
@christinescarff49202 роки тому
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Yes, I know , but really when you look at the price of season tickets and new football strips for kids which change every season, it’s a wonder anyone ‘ working class ‘ can afford to support football teams ! AND , as a former senior Tax Inspector, I won’t start on about the corruption in the ownership of football clubs - oligarchs, Saudi princes - the list goes on !
@MGSVxBreakpoint2 роки тому
@@christinescarff4920 TV licence m8. Now working folks can watch footie low cost aaand get none of the real experience. Win!
@bleepinfireman10 років тому
That Mao face
@politure7 років тому
it's borderline lol
@SandlotRider7 років тому
Looks like Elizabeth the 2nd
@Plafintarr6 років тому
*correction: it's borderline lmao
@jamsch56926 років тому
I am fucking beautiful
@jeremymullins12946 років тому
it's Terry Gilliam. That's all that matters.
@brianarbenz72064 роки тому
Historical stages of development: Tribalism Feudalism Capitalism Socialism Communism Lounge Suite
@BennettParsons14 роки тому
Brian Arbenz you forgot to add: “Running a massive genocide against your own population.”
@sdivine134 роки тому
He wrote communism already
@Neuroticmancer4 роки тому
BennettParsons1 yeah he did it was called capitalism
@sdivine134 роки тому
@@Neuroticmancer you're pretty stupid arent you?
@Deridus4 роки тому
@@sdivine13 Y'all forgot feudalism and tribalism, ya gormless tossers!
@sgt.miltonosiris4490Рік тому
Marx lived in London a number of years, but sadly he passed away in 1883, 12 years before the founding of West Ham United FC :(
@hankkingsley93002 роки тому
One of my favorites
@mcaddicts9 років тому
Why did Marx end up in the final round, Mao was the only one who answered a question. Just plain silly.
@doctorwhofan25638 років тому
mcaddicts "Just plain silly" is the entire point of Monty Python.
@mcaddicts8 років тому
Yeah I realize that and was making reference to the running joke of the silliness.
@doctorwhofan25638 років тому
mcaddicts Oh. Well, stop that. It's silly.
@mcaddicts8 років тому
All right I'll get on with it.
@chiefjudgefish41938 років тому
+mcaddicts YES! Get on with it!
@oscarmccormack16114 роки тому
Rest in Peace, Terry Jones. Your laughter will ring until the last smile fades.
@philldavies79404 роки тому
Would be interesting to know how Terry ranked himself, he was a keen Medieval historian, whether that was more important to him or monty python. One of Wale's finest.
@jmpopovРік тому
He said he's not dead
@clem25262 роки тому
This is unrealistic, no four leftists could sit in a room for this long without infighting
@hungryyellow21192 роки тому
Truth
@Caboose40912 роки тому
Bruh
@hungryyellow21192 роки тому
@@Caboose4091 Is he wrong
@middleworldwitch48108 місяців тому
Ye Olde Circular Firing Squad, that's the straight dope!
@chrisb44197 місяців тому
Marxist Leninists, not "leftists"
@cayk4812 роки тому
i like how everyone in the audience got excited when they announced karl marx
@squatch5457 років тому
Damn, I was hoping Marx would win the lounge suite.
@feartheghus5 років тому
He had enough free shit given to him in real life.
@leplancoop85844 роки тому
@@feartheghus Like his 7 dead kids ? That was a free gift from society right ?
@feartheghus4 роки тому
Le PlAn CoOp no but all the draining he did from family member’s funds and all the mooching he did while producing nothing was.
@leplancoop85844 роки тому
@@feartheghus I wouldn't call writing over 20 books nothing... but sure...
@Dmitry TKR it's hahahaha in Portuguese, I'm mexican anyway
@dr.floridaman48053 роки тому
The works of the worker. Marx logic would have the couch maker own all his couches and no bread.
@spiicypotato3 роки тому
@Jim Goose Why are you booing him? He’s right!
@dr.floridaman48053 роки тому
@@spiicypotato lmao. He dipped out. His phone maker wanted his work back.
@ralphmarx75543 місяці тому
The irony is that most of them would know these at a drop of a hat... except Mao. I think Mao liked baseball more
@shieldphaser3 місяці тому
Honestly this perfectly encapsulates why I don't like games like trivial pursuit.
@yinoveryang42464 роки тому
Terry Gilliam pulling that face. Wouldn't get away with that these days.
@DL-cd7ew4 роки тому
SJW's would sh-t
@dom27524 роки тому
@@DL-cd7ew i mean probably cause its racist?
@DL-cd7ew4 роки тому
@@dom2752 - You mean comedy 😇
@dom27524 роки тому
@@DL-cd7ew can comedy not be racist?
@DL-cd7ew4 роки тому
@@dom2752 - Do you go after black people who impersonate a white person, and call them racist too?
@shaunhouse86347 років тому
Strangely Coventry City won the English FA Cup for the only time only five years after this was made
@nosuchthing87 років тому
Shaun House wow!
@kieranwilcox77397 років тому
Shaun House only 5 years, that's long enough for that to not be relevant
@NyantoDesu7 років тому
Shaun House Nothingham Forest has won the Champions League. Anything is possible!
@rcalibre98147 років тому
ObviousBaitYetYouStillFellForIt 0
@Curratum7 років тому
This is the sort of thing I trawl the comments for!
@allenlovell16042 роки тому
Agreed, we need all the comedians and laughter we can get ! We need Benny, Dave, Rodney, and George so badly right now ! Sadly they have all passed away !:(
@kristopherloviska9042Рік тому
Python would be crucified today for Gilliam's portrayal of Mao.
@superbrain7852Рік тому
I mean... Are they? This isnt a "would" scenario.
@ReasonAboveEverythingРік тому
@@superbrain7852 yes, we both know that would happen...
@superbrain7852Рік тому
@@ReasonAboveEverything What do you mean "would", is this not a sketch today? Look into the comments, do you see anyone, a single person saying "uh thats yellow facing"? Youll probably find one eventually, but for very person who says that, there are thousands of people like you guys. Chill out, why be so speculative, they arent getting crucified, thats a fact, nothing to discuss here.
@josephgarfield33633 роки тому
The attention to detail is the best part of this skit, Great Balls of Fire came out in 1957, when Mao was still alive, so it is entirely possible he actually knew the answer.
@Ericwvb2Рік тому
Since this was filmed in 1982 it wasn't exactly ancient history back then (25 years earlier). Today's question might include a question about Michael Jackson's "Bad" which came out in 1987 or 35 years ago (ok now I feel old).
@stevenleighton194710 місяців тому
Of course he knew the answer!!! he answered the question.
@JDWalkerDrummer4 роки тому
I was really hoping that when Mao won $10, it'd be redistributed to the other contestants and everyone would have $2.50.
@markbrookman82334 роки тому
Naaa... that's not how Communism is implemented in reality... More like: $9.95 to the "Party", and 5c for the masses...
@dungusmcgee14174 роки тому
And then everyone starves.
@dragons_red4 роки тому
Only the masses have to share, and they made share what little they are given. All the money stays at the top with the party leaders. Absolute power as they say....
@dungusmcgee14174 роки тому
@@dragons_red That absolute power stuff is a load of nonsense. Doesn't explain anything. There have been plenty of examples where absolute power has not corrupted and current examples today how partial (democratic) power has corrupted and the problem with partial power is it leaves anyone in it paralyzed to kick out any one who is corrupt. At least absolute power depends on the nature of the person themselves. I would take Marcus Aurelius over any of these Orwellian U.N bureaucrats anyday. Who voted them in anyway? Democracy sucks, but so does socialism and communism. Also fuck Hitler.
@dungusmcgee14174 роки тому
@Jake Williams For sure. But the state's will swing blue soon, then the only option will be for republicans to move futher left and shift the Overton window further and further left. You can already see it with gay and trans advocacy as well other policies that would of never been adopted 50 years ago
@cykoelektryko14823 місяці тому
17 Years later Coventry City won the FA cup. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3:2 (a.e.t).
@karlmarx7511Рік тому
Ah yes I remember this game show
@blondthought51754 роки тому
This skit must have sailed right over my head when watching Monty Python as a child.
@zeverin75184 роки тому
@blue heeler *makes fun of people's intelligence based on their hair colour *uses the preposition 'of' instead of the auxiliary verb 'have' because it sounds more or less the same classic
@zeverin75184 роки тому
@blue heeler My prrrrrecious! or did you mean ''you're'?
@zeverin75184 роки тому
@blue heeler 😘
@blondthought51754 роки тому
@blue heeler I was born brunette, like Stalin.
@michaelmerck75764 роки тому
To me it was just the British accents and the British sense of morality that made them funny,they took being British and all its inane customs to task by a high level of hyperble which when done by real Brits was hilarious
@vonskull10 років тому
At least Marx knows offsides when he sees it.
@ErinStevens1210 років тому
I still think the German's made a huge mistake by subbing him in for Wittgenstein.
@jturon91846 років тому
I liked the days of Socrates.
@dixonballes29407 місяців тому
not Eric having the audacity to call a lounge suite "non-materialistic" on a stage full of dialectical materialists
@GenX9r9r2 роки тому
The 'Hook' was Mao BUZZING in...I cackled before he answered, then I died laughing with 'Gwate Bawls Of Fire'.
@PunkParrot3 роки тому
"Great balls of fire?" I'm so glad I found this video again lmao
@teebrinner59392 роки тому
😃😃😃
@lhistorienchipoteur99682 роки тому
1:15 Covetry city won in 1987. Seven years after this sketch.
@ZejjntРік тому
The very definition of timeless
@patrickmccarron505911 місяців тому
That lounge suite is sweet.
@kozmonauta05153 роки тому
2:53 Reminds me of when an old man stood next to a bridge with a knight and asked him what's Assyria's capital
@brucevertrees47403 роки тому
It’s definitely not a casual and easy-going capital
@suddenlyfrogs19063 роки тому
I don't know that! (I bet Arthur knew it was Ashur because of some silly debate before the opening credits...)
@peterleadley71033 роки тому
Ninevah. where's my sofa?
@heyheynowinga997210 місяців тому
you folk made my childhood in the 70'S amazing FUNNY IT HELPED ME
@vilstef69884 роки тому
About everything I know about English Football I've learned from this Monty Python sketch.
@ryanmuroРік тому
I’m not a proletariat, I’m temporally embarrassed bourgeoise
@marcopulidori219410 місяців тому
Sempre stati geniali ❤
@sonofnyx94375 років тому
Marx looking like Rasputin, Che Guevara like Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong like Mussolini (lmao)
@oni7414 роки тому
Sonofnyx LMFAO!! True 🤣
@oni7414 роки тому
@@jetstream6389 Absolutely 👍🏻
@Forcystus858 років тому
"No one leaves this show empty-handed...so we're gonna cut of his hands" lol, so that's where Izzard got the joke he used in his quiz show act in Definite Article. Then again Izzard does make a ton of Python references in his comedy.
@Bialy_14 роки тому
Socialist stealing form someone? Shocking! hehe
@hatespeach98354 роки тому
Well izzard is a jew.... just like marx You they ever did any work of their own?
@TheRealSharpe2 роки тому
Mao knew "Great balls of fire" becuase he was known for having Venereal disease. Gold
@yotsugiononoki2842Рік тому
he was also the only one who was alive when the song came out
@iacopoguidi7871Рік тому
00:18 Omg I spotted a mistake! Che Guevara was not Bolivian, he was killed there while leading a guerrilla, but he was Argentinian, and a Cuban citizen as well since he participated in the Cuban revolution! ^_^
@Gamer_Rade10 років тому
This has ruined my education. Was talking about Marxism and Marx during a lecture... Kept thinking about the Hammers.
@rafasounds20107 років тому
Communism for pretty middle class girls
@Dowlphin7 років тому
Forgot about the sickles, hm?
@urbanzero29977 років тому
Well I mean the concepts of Marxism are just as much of a joke
@bighands696 років тому
Curious when covering this did you learn about how it actually fails when attempted
@imjelo6 років тому
i am sure you had a smirk on your face as you were listening to the lecture.
@lynnlo4 роки тому
"No one leaves this show empty handed, so we're going to cut off his hands."
@sebastiamarques32744 роки тому
@Rutger Thyssen Bullshit. Lenin, Mao and Che Guevara did worse things.
@inkmaster54804 роки тому
@@sebastiamarques3274 Why do you assume that pointing out one man's bad things is meant to excuse other men's bad things?
@ximenaespinoza21064 роки тому
@@sebastiamarques3274 hello im a chilean and saying pinochet didn't things worse than them just shows up how blind by the right wing you are
@kendallwilson66544 роки тому
Ximena Espinoza cheers !
@oldcowbb3 роки тому
best summary of how communism was executed in history
@marionmarino16167 місяців тому
O god, the British!
@arthurdent97455 місяців тому
...and an American. Wait, what does that even mean?
@marionmarino16165 місяців тому
@@arthurdent9745 The English sense of humor is unique - it is less obvious than the American which kind of hits you over the head.
@LOTRmeme2 місяці тому
John Cleese & Eric Idle… they’re all fantastic but those two- heavy hitters
@serotonin385710 років тому
no one leaves the show empty handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands. i died.
@Bramswarr9 років тому
it didn't explain the teddy bear they threw at him though